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“The most important element is my heart, that I try to express through my body and my hands. When I take a brush in my hand, my heart searches for lines, and tries to create forms.” Toko Shinoda
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‘Tamayura’
lithograph
15 x 11″
1996
‘Simile’
lithograph
15 x 11″
1997
‘Rippling’
lithograph
15-3/4 x 11-1/4″
1983
‘Blessing’
lithograph
13-1/4 x 10-1/4″
1983
‘Snow’
lithograph
13-1/4 x 10-1/2″
1982
‘Fete’
lithograph
15 x 11″
1997
‘Maiden’
lithograph
15 x 11″
1985
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Toko zealously studied traditional calligraphy and “waka” poetry. She began teaching calligraphy, and had her first one-woman exhibition in Tokyo just before the war. During the war she tended toward abstract work, which she developed to international exhibition level over the next period. After two years’ residence in New York, in Tokyo again she turned to lithographs. She became the first female artist to collaborate with architects and with interior designers. Her versatility extended to producing textiles for theater curtains, ceramic reliefs in buildings, etchings in stainless steel for elevator decor.
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Toko Shinoda : Castle Fine Arts
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